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hell

[hel] / hɛl /


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It was hell on my wife because I was just in my head the whole time, but I’m mostly in my head anyway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Thirty years is a hell of a run for Stones Throw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Benn had looked increasingly gaunt and drawn during fight week and told BBC Sport the cut had taken him to the "pits of hell".

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

After many minutes of crawling to try and escape the "hell hole that I was in", Berriff emerged from under the rubble.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Vermont is one thing but he could get into a hell of a lot of trouble in New York.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

It was a roustabout settlement with three stores, a blacksmithy, a boarding house, a half-dozen saloons, gambling hells and dance halls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

It’s going to be one hell of an offseason, and there’s nothing like hells of offseasons.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021

On August 4th, we watched from our separate hells as a 40,000-foot cloud the color of bruised flesh collapsed over the ridge west of Greenville.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

Even the most “normal” version of this show, though, is odd and inquisitive, with a lot to say about how we create our own paradises and hells.

From The Verge ● Dec. 12, 2018

In Westeros the septons spoke of seven hells and seven heavens, but the Seven Kingdoms and their gods were far away.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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